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“I have faith, because nature is the very best example of integration. Things grow differently when they’re damaged, showing us how to occupy strange new ground to bloom red instead of green. We can be found, brighter than before.”

“‘I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.’ It’s a line by one of her favorite poets, a woman named Donna Carnes, whose husband went out for sale in San Francisco Bay and has not been seen since. I love it too. How many parties have I gone to over the years, and laughed, and had a good time, while still managing to hold Denise close.”

“what's different is the women on Twitter and Instagram who are so unitedly over this shit they got handcuffs on the Oscar-winning movie producer and a grabby senator out of Congress in the middle of his term. It's a climate that assigns more value to my side of the story too. Not that I responded to any of the interview requests. The risk was still too great that the media might buy and sell my story for parts.”

“I marveled at the pointlessness of it all, at the timing which did feel pointed in its own way. Why not a year ago when there was nothing to take from me? it was like he had scoured the beach for the woman most flush with life.”

This book is fucking devastating as a woman I genuinely don’t have the words

“Women got that feeling about him, that funny one we all get when we know something isn't right, but we don't know how to politely extricate ourselves from the situation without escalating the threat of violence or harassment. That is not a skill women are taught, the same way men are not taught that it is okay to leave a woman alone if what she wants is to be left alone.”

“You were there. She got to be with someone she loved at the end of her life. It should’ve been me. But at least it was you.”

“There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to The Defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was make me realize that there wasn't so big a difference between the man who'd brutalized Denise and half the men I passed every day on the street.” Sick to my stomach thx

“On these bad days, I like to think that Denise is up there, wherever it is truly smashing women go when they die, and that shed managed to pull a few strings. Overshadowed his death the way he did her fleeting time on this earth. Revenge is a dish best served cold. The vixens of As the World Turns taught us that.”

"I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you're thinking, and what you're up to, and how you feel. I want to memorize you-to learn you like a song. I feel like I've been lost all my life until now—and somehow with you I'm just... found."
Think about the “that’s my why” trend. For me it’s I’ve been single for 4 years because I’ve never felt this way about a man. That’s my why.

Incredible how quickly a good book helps you rebound from a bad one

A man named Robby doesnt deserve to have this many opinions

The writing is just so unfortunate

As respectfully as i can say this, this book reads like a wattpad book. It’s extremely basic with its stylistic choices and flow which sucks bc the concept itself could be so much more successful

Yawn I’m over this

This book has so much potential but is honestly flopping

The writing is feeling kind of juvenile and the name drops could be done in a much smoother way